On Charlie Rose Show March 28, 2014 at Bloomberg:
As Charlie Rose introduced Drew Faust, President of Harvard, he said “In her installation address, she said: ‘A university is not about results
in the next quarter, it is not even about what the student has become by
graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits
the heritage of millennia, learning that shapes the future.’”
Here is my question:
How in the heck do we know if the President is achieving her goals? How would we know if she is an utter failure or a grand success with her stated mission? Do we have to wait until the President and we are all dead?
It is a noble sounding mission statement. But is it possible that it is all puff? Pure
BS?
Maybe we should state the goals and the mission of the
university in more down to earth terms. Perhaps we should express it in simple language such that when the President of
Harvard is failing we will know it and we can replace her. Maybe we should be able to measure the results rather than rely on her "gut feeling" or the President's gut feeling as proof of success.
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